I seem to remember a core maths activity about Glastonbury festival, can anyone help me find it? I thought it would be a nice and very topical thing to talk about with our future students on step up day on Monday... @CoreMathsTom@CoreMathsCat#coremathschat
A bit of editing and reshuffling but my core maths booklet for confidence intervals is (mostly) complete. This has been so helpful in understanding what order to teach it in and what they need to know. Taken hours #coremaths#coremathschat
One for the weekend!
This graph shows the apparent correlation between a country's level of #chocolate consumption and its total number of @NobelPrize laureates per capita.
We'll let you decide if it's just a coincidence π
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VERY many thanks Rachel, @GirlsCount_2, for such a fascinating #mathscpdchat#CoreMathsChat tonight! And many thanks to all contributors. There will be a full summary, with all the links that were shared.
Motivation. Awareness of the utility and ubiquity of maths, of opportunities. Aspiration. Transferability of skills. Recognising maths outside my classroom without a huge arrow pointing at it
And to preempt THAT question
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Ours is delivered in PSHE type sessions. We often have speakers in. One thing I think would help is making vocational staff more comfortable with the maths in their subject. #CoreMathsChat#MathsCPDChat
It did. We talked about the need to use maths to help spread the message of what is happening. So organisations could properly convey the extent of the problem. #CoreMathsChat#MathsCPDChat